62 The naval war of Genseric is described by Priscus, (Excerpta Legation.p. 42,) Procopius, (de. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Alaric sacked the capital in 410, and Genseric in 455. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Genseric agreed to spare the lives and homes of the Romans. From Wordnik.com. [St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor of the church] Reference
That's the state of things today thanks to a modern day Genseric. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing Linda McQuaig's "It's the Crude, Dude"] Reference
Genseric were not about to sweep away the faith and the language of. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
In the year 455 a Vandal fleet, led by the dread Genseric, sailed up the Tiber. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Genseric: Ohhh, so Japanese waterboarding = bad and evil, but our waterboarding = okay?. From Wordnik.com. [George Bush: no escaping torture charges | Katherine Gallagher] Reference
Genseric had transported these relics to Africa, when he plundered Rome in the year 455. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Two years after, Genseric plundered Rome, and brought innumerable captives from Italy, Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
For these reasons the Vandals gladly undertook the enterprise, and under Genseric, their king, became lords of Africa. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Florence] Reference
Genseric granted to the pious bishop the lives of the citizens, but said that the plunder of the capital belonged to his warriors. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The Vandals passing from Spain to Africa in the fifth century, under their leader Genseric, committed the most unheard-of cruelties. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Genseric, build houses which amaze the traveler by their utter unlikeness to Moorish edifices and their resemblance to European structures. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
The story of the twenty years following the sack of the capital by Genseric affords only a repetition of the events we have been narrating. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Acer by the Romans, and known to us by the name of Odoacer, had only Herulians in his train, and that Genseric conducted Vandals alone into Africa?. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
In A.D. 429 they crossed into Africa under Genseric, who not only made himself master of Byzacium, Gaetulia, and part of Numidia, but also crossed over into. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
The Vandalian tyrant Genseric, having made an expedition into Italy, and plundered the city of Rome, returned to Africa, flushed with the success of his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Genseric: After WW2, Japanese prison guards were tried at an international court for torturing - waterboarding - US prisoners of war, and subsequently imprisoned. From Wordnik.com. [George Bush: no escaping torture charges | Katherine Gallagher] Reference
Fast forward to today and you get the picture about a modern-day plunderer doing the same thing for much greater stakes than Genseric or Alexander could have imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing Linda McQuaig's "It's the Crude, Dude"] Reference
The king of these Vandals was Genseric, the worthy rival of Alaric and. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The cruelties of Genseric towards his subjects are strongly expressed in. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
During this short interval, the wind became favorable to the designs of Genseric. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Genseric beheld the danger with firmness, and eluded it with his veteran dexterity. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Genseric led the Vandals to victory after victory in North Africa, culminating in the fall of Carthage. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Bulletin -] Reference
Genseric gladly availed himself of an invitation which held out to him the richest prize in the empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Genseric conducted his unknown guest into the arsenal of Carthage, the arms clashed of their own accord. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
On the third day after the tumult, Genseric boldly advanced from the port of Ostia to the gates of the defenceless city. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Without the help of a personal interview, Genseric was sufficiently acquainted with the genius and designs of his adversary. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Vandals, was ascribed to a secret promise, which had formerly been exacted from him when he was a captive in the power of Genseric. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Genseric to improve the fair opportunity of disguising his rapacious designs by the specious names of honor, justice, and compassion. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Baronius A.D. 455, (No. 13) that Genseric spared the three apostolical churches, is not countenanced even by the doubtful testimony of the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Goths with arms, and ships, and treasures, for the African war; and the cruelty of Genseric might have been fatal to himself, if the artful. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
The revolutions of the palace, which left the Western empire without a defender, and without a lawful prince, dispelled the apprehensions, and stimulated the avarice, of Genseric. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
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